After her brief and less than well-received stint as Pop's editor-in-chief, it sounds like Dasha Zhukova has finally found a place to do her fashion-meets-art thing her way. Her new magazine, Garage, debuts for fall 2011 and the New York Times' Eric Wilson got a preview.
The art collector, fashion designer, and girlfriend of Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, named the magazine after the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, a museum she opened in Moscow in 2008. Garage’s art director, Mike Meiré tells the Times, “It is so very, very different from other magazines,” and that sounds pretty accurate. According to Wilson, it "looks almost handmade."
The inaugural issue has multiple covers: One was a collaboration between artist Dinos Champan and Show Studio's Nick Knight and features a creepy dollhouse in which a puppet version of Lily Donaldson wears Marc Jacobs. Another cover features a model shot nude from the waist down, her nether regions covered by a butterfly sticker that can be peeled off to reveal...a butterfly tattoo. On a vagina.

After her brief and less than well-received stint as Pop's editor-in-chief, it sounds like

Other contributors to Garage's inaugural issue include Shala Monroque, who is on the masthead as creative director, Joan Juliet Buck as an editorial consultant, Giovanna Battaglia (who apparently made an Alexander McQueen dress out of romaine lettuce for an editorial), Max Snow, Juergen Teller, Tavi Gevinson and Marina Abramovic.

We're not sure about designer gowns made out of food, but this is one magazine that we'll, at the very least, be flipping through at the newsstand, if not purchasing (though we're sure it comes with a hefty price tag). It sounds insane. In the best way. Will you read Garage?

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UPDATE: Jezebel got a hold of all three covers, including that racy butterfly vagina one. Take a look.

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Dasha Zhukova, who replaced Katie Grand as the editor of Pop nearly two years ago, has resigned from the magazine, according to Telegraph fashion editor Hilary Alexander.
Pop was Katie Grand's baby and Zhukova--a Russia gallery girl, Kova & T designer, and partner of billionaire Roman Abramovich--was given a lot of crap when she entered the role. Owned by Bauer--yes, the publisher who runs Life & Style--Pop has taken on a less-fashion-y, more artsy vibe during Zhukova's reign.
Whether or not Zhukova was unceremoniously canned or simply decided she'd had enough is yet to be determined. Know anything? Email us on tips@fashionista.com.

Aliona Doletskaya's departure from Vogue Russia raised more than a few questions, but mostly people just wondered, "Where would she go next?"
Despite rumors that she would replace Anna Wintour at American Vogue, or Carine Roitfeld at Vogue Paris, the most likely scenario was that she would take over Pop from fellow Russian Dasha Zhukova.
Instead, Doletskaya will launch two European editions of Interview magazine--one in Russia at the end of 2011 and one in Germany at the beginning of 2012. She will serve as editor-in-chief of both publications.
This is great news for Doletskaya, but it's also good news for Brant Publications, the publisher of Interview.